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McNamee Speaks — Clemens' ex-trainer reacts to 60 Minutes interview — Brian McNamee sits mostly stone-faced as Roger Clemens, his onetime client and close friend, brings the heat. “Ridiculous,” “hogwash” — terms used by the seven-time Cy Young Award winner to discredit McNamee's bombshell testimony …
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McNamee bitter over taping of call — Brian McNamee comes across as a scared and confused man during Friday's 17-minute conversation with Roger Clemens, deeply worried about his son's poor health and his frayed relationship with his most famous client. — But the fear and the confusion …
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Raw and Edited: The Two Versions of Clemens — The moment Roger Clemens cut off his news conference Monday by walking off (still, in high dudgeon, remembering to take his bottle of water), I said to myself, “Now that's television!" — This was live, raw, sour Roger, the one you get in a foul mood …
Gene Wojciechowski / ESPN:
Clemens has made his case, but logic asks for more … Despite the official attorney-issued statements, the Web site-controlled video denial, the “60 Minutes” interview and Monday's weird, defiant and wholly unsatisfying news conference with reporters, Roger Clemens' version of the truth still has more holes than a batting cage net.
Gerry Fraley / Sporting News:
Torre's silence on Clemens: louder than words? — The most telling moment in the mushrooming Roger Clemens saga came before his Marion Jones-like performance Sunday night on CBS's “60 Minutes." — Joe Torre managed Clemens for six seasons with the New York Yankees.
Peter Botte / NY Daily News:
McNamee says Roger a user, not ‘abuser’ — Brian McNamee mostly has remained silent and out of the public eye for the past month, watching Roger Clemens try to discredit his former trainer's steroid allegations in the Mitchell Report both in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday and in yesterday's press conference in Houston.
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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Clemens's Lawyer Plays Tape of McNamee Call — HOUSTON — Roger Clemens unleashed a furious attack Monday on his former trainer Brian McNamee with a news conference featuring a tape of a recorded phone call and a lawsuit accusing McNamee of lying about injecting him with performance-enhancing drugs.
ESPN:Clemens plays tape of conversation with distraught McNamee
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M's, Reds still interested in O's Bedard — Andy MacPhail, the Orioles' president of baseball operations, left his options open when he said last month that there was a “strong likelihood” the team would not trade left-hander Erik Bedard.
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MLB Trade Rumors
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Jason A. Churchill / Prospect Insider:
M's Getting Closer? — I have it on pretty good authority that the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles may very well be making significant progress on a trade involving left-hander Erik Bedard. — Unfortunately, if you are an M's fan, the word is that the Mariners may agree …
Doug Fischer / National Post:
Stats junkies differ over McGwire's Hall of Fame worthiness — OTTAWA - When baseball's Hall of Fame announces its newest crop of inductees today in New York, the eighth greatest slugger in the sport's history will not be on the list - again. — Despite whacking 583 career homers …
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards have arbitration coming up — Scott Boras has a bunker of computers loaded with nearly 130 years of statistical history and 35 staffers dedicated to prepping arbitration cases for clients like Rick Ankiel. — Yet even with all his resources whirring into action, it's improbable they'll find a case anything like Ankiel's.
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MLB Trade Rumors
MLB.com:
Major League Baseball acts on Mitchell recommendations — MLB launches clubhouse security plan — As part of an evolving process to prevent the illegal use of performance-enhancing substances, Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced today that Major League Baseball …
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Atkins among players awaiting raises — An explanation for the Rockies' $16 million spike in payroll to around $70 million is starting to take shape. The club has started talks with its arbitration-eligible players, most notably third baseman Garrett Atkins.
Murray Chass / New York Times:
A Reliever From the Old School Awaits His Hall of Fame Day — The Yankees' new relief pitcher lost three of his first four games, and people, including catcher Thurman Munson, were wondering what was going on. That pitcher, Rich Gossage, thereafter to be known primarily as Goose …
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Bronx Banter
Bill Madden / NY Daily News:
Goose closes in on Hall call — It's Hall of Fame reckoning day and Goose Gossage, who got to the doorstep of Cooperstown with 71.2% of the vote last year, is hoping his eighth time on the ballot finally will be the charm as he seeks to become only the fifth reliever elected to baseball's shrine.
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